Ben Crump 需要・要求するs 司法（官） for Ajike Owens, the 最新の time he's supported a grieving 黒人／ボイコット family
Ben Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton says, is "黒人／ボイコット America´s 弁護士／代理人／検事 general."
In いっそう少なく than a １０年間, the Florida-based 弁護士／代理人／検事 has become the 発言する／表明する for the families of Trayvon ツバメ, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Tyre Nichols -- 黒人／ボイコット people whose deaths at the 手渡すs of police and vigilantes 誘発するd a movement.
He has won multimillion-dollar 解決／入植地s in police brutality 事例／患者s. He´s 押し進めるd cities to 禁止（する） no-knock 令状s. He has told a congressional 委員会 that 改革（する） is needed because "it´s become painfully obvious we have two systems of 司法（官）; one for white Americans and one for 黒人／ボイコット Americans."
And he´s stood with 黒人／ボイコット 農業者s taking on an agribusiness 巨大（な）, and families exposed to lead-汚染するd water in Flint, Michigan.
This week, he's standing with the family of Ajike Owens, a 黒人／ボイコット woman fatally 発射 after going to the Ocala, Florida, apartment of her white neighbor, who earlier had yelled at and 恐らく 強襲，強姦d Owens´ children as they played nearby. He called on the 明言する／公表する 弁護士／代理人／検事´s office to "zealously 起訴する" the shooter.
"He´s a real 信奉者 in what he´s doing. He has taken the attacks. He has taken the 事例／患者s that others wouldn´t take," Sharpton said, 追加するing, "People can go to him. The 推論する／理由 I 信用 him is because he has never misled me. Good or bad, he´ll tell me the truth about a （弁護士の）依頼人."
弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump, 中心, shouts "司法（官） for A.J.!" while 側面に位置するd by Pamela Dias, left, mother of Ajike "AJ" Owens and 弁護士／代理人／検事 Anthony Thomas, 権利, during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 Wednesday afternoon, June 7, 2023 at the New St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is （刑事）被告 of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (Doug Engle/Ocala 星／主役にする-旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する 経由で AP)
These days, he seems to be everywhere. A Florida 法律 school now 耐えるs his 指名する. Last year, Netflix 解放（する）d "Civil," a 文書の about his civil 権利s work. And in the year 事前の, TIME 指名するd him to its 100 Most 影響力のある People 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）.
In April of 2021, he joined with George Floyd's family in celebrating the 有罪の判決 of ex-警官，（賞などを）獲得する Derek Chauvin. Then he was の中で the 会葬者s at the funeral for Daunte Wright, who was 発射 during a traffic stop in 郊外の Minneapolis in the week 主要な up to Chauvin´s 判決 - a juxtaposition he finds incredible.
"If ever there was a time for police to be on their best 行為, if ever there was a time for them to use the greatest 基準 of care, if ever there was a time for them to de-増大する, it was during this 裁判，公判, which I believe was one of the most consequential police (and) civil 権利s 事例／患者s in our history," Crump told The Associated 圧力（をかける） in 2021.
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EDITOR´S NOTE: The Associated 圧力（をかける） 最初 published a 見解／翻訳／版 of this profile of Ben Crump on May 2, 2021.
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Critics see him as an opportunist who never fails to show up まっただ中に another 悲劇. But those who know Crump say he´s been fighting for fairness long before his 指名する was in headlines.
"Where there´s 不正, that´s where he wants to be," said Ronald Haley, a Louisiana 弁護士／代理人／検事, who´s の中で a wide 網状組織 of lawyers Crump 作品 with on 訴訟s. "He understands he´s needed everywhere, but he also understands he can´t be everywhere."
Crump, 51, is a tireless 労働者 who mixes Southern charm, a talent for attracting マスコミ attention to his 事例／患者s and a 会社／堅い belief that 人種差別主義 afflicts the nation, and the 法廷，裁判所s are the place to take it on.
He has an uncanny way of making his （弁護士の）依頼人s feel like 肉親，親類, they say.
"He has never 行方不明になるd a Thanksgiving to check in on me, he calls on Christmas," said Allisa Findley, who first met Crump three days after her brother, Botham ジーンズ, was fatally 発射 in his apartment by a white Dallas police officer who mistook the 黒人／ボイコット man´s apartment for her own.
"Even the little things, he makes time for it, when there are no cameras rolling," she said. "He does feel like family. I consider Ben family."
Terrence Floyd, a younger brother of George Floyd, said Crump´s attention and care for his family over the last year has 社債d them beyond the 弁護士／代理人／検事-（弁護士の）依頼人 関係.
"It feels like it´s more family-based than 商売／仕事," he said. "After a while, I went from calling him `Mr. Crump´ to calling him `Unc,´ like he was one of my uncles."
Crump keeps up a dizzying schedule that takes him all over, but he makes sure he´s home for Sunday services at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. He lives in Tallahassee with his wife and their 8-year-old daughter, Brooklyn; he also helped raise two cousins and became their 合法的な 後見人.
"I look at my daughter," Crump said, "I look in her 注目する，もくろむs, and then I look in the 注目する，もくろむs of my nieces and 甥s, and my little cousins - all these little 黒人／ボイコット and brown children. You see so much hope, so much 楽観主義 in their 注目する，もくろむs. We've got to give them a better world."
He 追加するd: "What I'm trying to do, as much as I can, even いつかs singlehandedly, is 増加する the value of 黒人／ボイコット life."
Crump´s path to becoming a lawyer and 支持する began while growing up in Lumberton, North Carolina, where he was the oldest of nine siblings and step-siblings.
In his 調書をとる／予約する "Open Season: 合法化するd 集団殺戮 of Colored People," he 述べるd learning in elementary school that a white classmate´s 週刊誌 allowance was as much as what his mother made in a week working two 職業s at a shoe factory and a hotel laundry.
"I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to understand why people on the white 味方する of the 跡をつけるs had it so good and 黒人／ボイコット people on our 味方する of the 跡をつけるs had it so bad," he wrote.
He often recounts how he learned about the world by reading the newspaper to his grandmother and how his mother taught him the story of famed civil 権利s lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who became his hero.
"He has always gravitated toward leadership and 存在 the answer to 不正," said Sean Pittman, an 弁護士／代理人／検事 who has been his friend for 30 years, since they met at Florida 明言する／公表する University. There, Crump was 大統領，／社長 of the 黒人／ボイコット Student Union and led 抗議するs to bring attention to how the school 新採用するd and 扱う／治療するd 黒人／ボイコット students.
But his rise from personal 傷害 弁護士／代理人／検事 to a 発言する／表明する of 黒人／ボイコット America began in 2013 when he 代表する d the family of Trayvon ツバメ, a 十代の少年少女 killed by a 近隣 watch volunteer in Florida. He then took on the 事例／患者 for the family of Michael Brown who was fatally 発射 by a white officer 近づく St. Louis.
Crump 組織するd marches and brought マスコミ attention to both of their deaths - each happening during the rise of the 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 movement.
He has gone on to 勝利，勝つ 財政上の 解決／入植地s in about 200 police brutality 事例／患者s. In March of 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to 支払う／賃金 $27 million to settle a civil 訴訟 from George Floyd´s family, which Crump at the time said is the largest pretrial civil 権利s 訴訟 解決／入植地 ever.
"I keep hoping and believing, if we can make them 支払う／賃金 multimillions of dollars every time they shoot a 黒人／ボイコット person in the 支援する, that there will be いっそう少なく 黒人／ボイコット people 発射 in the 支援する," Crump said. "That's my theory, but it remains unanswered because they keep 殺人，大当り us.".
In 最近の years, Crump waded into the TV and film world. He had a 簡潔な／要約する 役割 in the 2017 film "Marshall," which tells of the 早期に life of his hero, who became the first 黒人／ボイコット U.S. 最高裁判所 司法（官）.
His higher profile has brought more scrutiny and turned him into a たびたび（訪れる） 的. 保守的な author Candace Owens in April （刑事）被告 Crump of trying to 利益（をあげる） from police 狙撃s and encouraging violent 抗議するs.
"Keeping racial 問題／発行するs alive has become a 商売／仕事 in America," she told Fox News Channel´s Laura Ingraham. "It´s Al Sharpton yesterday, 足緒 Jackson tomorrow, Ben Crump today."
It doesn't really bother Crump: "You can't care what the enemies of equality think of you," he said. "It would be the 高さ of arrogance to think that everybody is going to love you. It's not a 人気 contest."
It´s fitting that he is now について言及するd の中で the 巨大（な）s of civil 権利s, said John Bowman, who has known him since Michael Brown's 殺人，大当り and has served as 大統領，／社長 of the St. Louis 郡 NAACP.
"I can´t get in his 長，率いる and say he charted out this course, and said, `I´m going to be the next strongest 発言する／表明する for 不正,´" Bowman said. "I do know that when the call was made, he didn´t shy away or step 支援する from it."
But Crump says he 結局 would like to step 支援する from it all.
"I literally pray for the day when I can の近くに 負かす／撃墜する the police brutality 分割 of my 法律 会社／堅い," he said, "because I am so tired of seeing 黒人／ボイコット people killed by the police unjustifiably. I'd like to tell my staff that we no longer have to fight in the 法廷，裁判所s, or be 助言者／カウンセラーs to so many grieving mothers and fathers."
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Morrison 報告（する）／憶測d from New York City. Seewer 報告（する）／憶測d from Toledo, Ohio.
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Morrison is a member of AP's Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison. Also, follow Seewer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jseewerap.
弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump embracing Pamela Dias, the mother of the Florida neighbor 狙撃 犠牲者 Ajike Owens, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at a news 会議／協議会 in Ocala Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is （刑事）被告 of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson)
Civil 権利s 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump, 中心, waves to members of the community walking out 持つ／拘留するing the 手渡す of Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike "AJ" Owens, に引き続いて a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会, Wednesday afternoon, June 7, 2023 at the New St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is accus ed of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (Doug Engle/Ocala 星／主役にする-旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する 経由で AP)
弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump speaks while while 持つ／拘留するing the 手渡す of Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike "AJ" Owens, during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会, Wednesday afternoon, June 7, 2023 a t the New St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is （刑事）被告 of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (Doug Engle/Ocala 星／主役にする-旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する 経由で AP)
Attendees pray during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 with 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump regarding the 狙撃 of Ajike Owens,, Wednesday afternoon, June 7, 2 023, at the New St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is （刑事）被告 of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (Doug Engle/Ocala 星／主役にする-旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する 経由で AP)
Attendees cry during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 with 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump regarding the 狙撃 of Ajike Owens,, Wednesday afternoon, June 7 , 2023, at the New St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is （刑事）被告 of fatally 狙撃 Owens last week in the violent culmination of what the 郡保安官 述べるd as a 2 and a half year 反目，不和 was 逮捕（する）d Tuesday, June 6, the Marion 郡 郡保安官's Office said. (Doug Engle/Ocala 星／主役にする-旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する 経由で AP)
FILE - 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump, speaks during a news 会議／協議会, Feb. 21, 2023, at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz 記念の and 教育の 中心 in New York, …を伴ってd by the daughters of Malcom X, Ilyasah Shabazz, left, and Qubilah Shabbaz, second from left, and 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ray Hamlin, 権利. Some of Malcom X's family members and their 弁護士／代理人／検事s 発表するd their 意図 to 告訴する 政治の 機関s for Malcom X's 暗殺 and the fraudulent concealment of 証拠 surrounding the 殺人. In 1965, the 大臣 and civil 権利s 行動主義者 was 発射 to death inside Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - Ben Crump, 中心, the civil 権利s 弁護士／代理人／検事 代表するing the family of George Floyd, joined at 権利 by NAACP 大統領 Derrick Johnson, speaks to reporters after they met with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., about police 改革（する） 法律制定, at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Washington, May 25, 2021, the first 周年記念日 of Floyd's death at the 手渡すs of a white Minneapolis police officer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - Kathryn Townsend Griffin, daughter of singer and songwriter Ed Townsend, 権利, leaves New York Feder al 法廷，裁判所 と一緒に 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump, left, as 訴訟／進行s are 一時停止するd in a copyright 違反 裁判，公判 against singer Ed Sheeran, May 1, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - 弁護士／代理人／検事 Ben Crump, 代表するing the family of Daunte Wright, 持つ／拘留するs up images 描写するing X26P Taser and a Glock 17 handgun during a news 会議／協議会 at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, April 15, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, とじ込み／提出する)
